The latest installment of “Star Wars” films is almost here.

But if you can’t wait for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” here’s some reviews from around the web, ranging from disappointment to satisfaction.

• Gizmodo’s Germain Lussier writes that “the film plays like a 150-minute checklist of cool stuff and surprises designed to please as many fans as possible.”

• A.O. Scott of The New York Times says it’s one of the best and also one of the worst “Star Wars” films, “perfect middling,” the review reads.

• NPR’s Glen Weldon claims director J.J. Abrams nails the 42-year-old “Star Wars” recipe “dutifully,” “but the flavoring’s off.”

• Peters Travers of Rolling Stone writes that Abrams effort to make the film everything you want and need it to be results often in chaos, “but it’s also a euphoric blast of pulse-quickening adventure, laced with humor and heart.”

• Scott Mendelson of Forbes says it’s genuinely bad movie, one that repeats the fatal mistakes of the likes of “Spectre,” “Spider-Man 3” and “The Crimes of Grindelwald” to end the Skywalker Saga on an all-time low.

• The A.V. Club’s A.A. Dowd offers that the movie “is a space opera animated not by joy but insecurity — the anxiety, evident in almost every moment.”

• “The Rise of Skywalker,” according to David Sims of The Atlantic, is “for want of a better word, completely manic: It leaps from plot point to plot point, from location to location, with little regard for logic or mood.”

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 57% Tomatometer from critics with about 160 ratings as of Wednesday afternoon.

“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” set for release Dec. 19, features Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, Billie Lourd, Keri Russell, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, among others.

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